The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1855, Page 4

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Important news from Havana has reached us by wey of New Q:leans. he advices are to the lita inst- Proclamations bad besn issued declaring the island ina state of siege, the ports under blookads, end ordering the enlistment of all persons capable of bearing arms. Reinforcements of troops from Porto Rico had been sent for, militia companies wers being formed, and the authorities were using every exertion in making preparations to repel the appre- hended invasion. It is probable, however, that Gen. Concha, or come of his officials, have simsly discovered a very capacious mare’s nest, tenanted by balf ascore of redoubtable chieftains and an innumerable host of uncor querable warriors ; hence all the furor and preparation. Gen. Wilson, recently elested t> the United States Senate from Masaschusetts by Know Nothing votes, has pudiished a letter giving bis views on the slavery question, in which he states that the Kaow Nothing organization in bia State does not embrace the sub- ject of slavery amorg those for the regulation of which It wos formed. Petitions from thie city in favor of Mr. Soward’s bill regulating the carryirg of passengers on board steamships aod other veseels, were presented in both houses cf Congress yesterday. They were re- ferred to the Committees on Commerve. The preceedir gain the Legislature yesterday were confined to routine business. Meesrs. Coleman avd Stuyvesant of New York, Baker of Montgomery Sem ing of Kings, and Deverning of Erie, have been appointed by the Speaker of the Aesembly as the select committee on New York harbor encroach. mente. In the United States Senate yesterday the bill providing for a railroad from the Mississippi Valiey to the Pacific was debated and finally passed by a vote of 24to 21. The bill provides for the conatrac. tion of three rcads, and grants twelve sections of land per mile in aid thereof. We have so often re- presented the impracticability of this undertaking at the present time that it is uanecessary to allude further tothe subject now. In executive session several nominations to offizes were received from the President. John Appleton, of Maine, was confirm: ed as Secretary of Legation to London In place of Daniel E. Sickles; Mr. Cox, of Ohio, as Secretary to Peru; and Mr. A'kinson as Third Auditor in place cf the Jate Mr. Burt. In the House yesterday there was a desperate strugg’e on the French 3poliation bill. The Presi- dent’s veto meseage of this measure was taken up tan carly hour. After brief ap; from ssveral members to dispose of the subject without discuss ing {ts merits, the previous question was ordered, and the vote on passing the bill in spite of tho Executive's objections resulied in 113 yeas to 86 nsys. This, ot course, defeated the bill. Oa the 27th alt. it passed incommittee by a vote of 110 to 76. After disposing of the veto meseage the House went into committee on tho Civil aad Diplomatic Appropristion bill, when Mr, Sollers offered as an amendment the French Spoliation bill, which the cbairman—Mr. Hibbard, of New Hampshire -raled | out of order. Av appeal #as taken from this de. cision, which, after an angry debate, was sustained. So the spojjation claimants are again laid out stone cold. The widows acd orphans who have long and patiently waited for ‘heir mite of the appropriation mut hope on, and the Wall etreet brokers wao have bought up claims at eix cents on the dollar most pick their fliots and try it again. No other Dnsiness was traneacted ia the House. Presidect Pierce's veto message is given in fail in to-day’s paper. The Secretary of the Navy has appointd a com mission to select steam propeilors to be employed im the expedition ordered by Congress to be de spatohed in search of Dr. Kaue and his companions We publish to-day vbe details of the news from Mexico to the 8th inst. The rumor that a provision al government Lad been formed at Acapulco, with Gen. Alvarez at ita head, was generally credited The revo.uticnists were rapidly gainivg strength and Tehusntepec bed declared against Santa Aona There were rumors of battles between the bellige rent forces, in eome of which the revolutionists were said to have been victorious, while ia others ths go yernment troops had met with success. Files from Hayti, dated to the 16th of January, state that the fiftyeecond anniversary of the iade, pendence of the country was celebrated with great pomp on the Ist and 2d of that month. Some in. teresting facts relative to the receipts and credits of the national treasury are given. Onr correspondent at Belize, (Honduras,) in a Jated on the 4th instant, announces that the ~n Gaatemala and Honduras was about to ~ the former State, General Carrera notified tke suthorities that the ‘ Troxillo were in a state of cald goon march an army ought, owing to thelr de- NEW YORK. HER’ fenceless condition, that he would easily take them | if he pereevered. We have also some curious tacte Telative to the suspension of the extensive ma: hogany cutting establishments at Limas, which, With those of Patook, were worked under a grant from the Mosquito King; and it was presumed that they would be reopened under psrmission of | the government of Gastemaia, in order to etreng:hen | ker influence with Great Britain. The English | government was establishing ttself by a more im- | partial rule in British Hoxvdoras. A review of tne events of the past yeat shows that the inhabitants of Honduras were visited with cholera, fire, floods, | fever and drought duriog the tweive months; aud | theee calamities, combined with a dull trade and high rates of provisions, had reduced their resources very much. Mahogany wood, sarsapi- | rilla and tortoise shell ruled low, out indigo and cochineal were in demand at fair prices. Provi- sions continued scarce and dear. There were plenty of fich in the bays, rivers and harbors, bat the people neglected the trade. ‘Lhe principal feature in the proceedings of the Board ot Aldermen last evening was a communica- ticn from the Mayor, containing an ordinance to provide for the prevention of accidents on the city railroad cars ard sleighs. The Mayor suggests that e light gate of iron wire should be placed on the driver's stand, to prevent persons jumping on that part of the cars, and that the conductors be cmpell- ed tostop while each passenger gets ‘on and off the car, The-ordinance aleo provides for similar wire fendera being plazed on the sides of sleighs, t» pre- vent parties standing thereon. The committee on police reported in favor of increasing the number of policemen in several wards, which, after some dia cussicn, was postoored for four weeks. In the Board of Councilmen last evening, a reaola- tion offered by Councilman Mather was adopted, atigmatizing the recent memorial to the Legislature “of the Common Couneil, praying for an amended charter for the city of New York,” as an indigaity to the Board, a false pretence, and entitled to no weight. The business transacted presented no fea- ture of any special importance. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, but the proceedings are devoid of interest, Judge McCarthy, of the Marine Court, has issued an order that D. R. Lee appear before tae Court to- day, and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt for a certain article recently pnolishea in the Daily Times. The cotton market was again active yesterday, end closed at about one-eighth of a cent advance on fair middling grades, while higher qualities were unchanged, The sales included about 3,500 bales, & portion of which was in transite. Floor was steady, with fair sales, inclading about 3,000 bar- rela for shi;ment to the eastward. A sale of prime white Gencree wheat, almost the only lot appearing, was made at $2 55, for city milling. Corn was more plenty, and closed at abont one or two c2n‘s per bushel lower. Pork was rather firmer. Tnere wss more produce offering for shipment to Liverpool, acd rates were firmer. The chief engagements con- sisted of cotton, corn and provisions. We pudlisied atelegraphic despatch yesterday, which, from tie character ot the following, handed to us by a mem- ber of a house in this city, who vouches for its co:- rectnecs, must have Leen incorrect:— Nuw Oxruas, Feb 15, 1855. Rio Coffee—Eales for the week 17,000 bags, at 93¢2. for prime—asking 10c. Stock. 43,000 bags. Gen. Sem Houston delivered an address last even- ing at Niblo’s on the peculiarities of the indians. A sketch of bis remarks is given in another columa. George W. Green, the waalthy Chicago banker, who was recently convicted of the marde- of his wife, committed suicide in hia cell yesterday by banging. ‘whe Know Nothing Revolution=Rapid Pro- gress—Coming Into Good Shape and Con- sistency. The reports which we published yesterday of the New York, Vermont and Connecticut State Councils of the Know Nothings, are exceed- ingly interesting and important, showing as they do, the rapid multiplication of the active force of the new American party. From these returns it is manifest that, with the exercise of the saving qualities of skill and discretion, this new party, from this time to the close of the great campaign of 1856--at least in the Northern and Eastern States—may sweep the field. The Virginia State election of May next will determine their strength in the South. Should they carry Virginia, as they expect to do by a handsome majority, we may set down a great salutary national political refor- mation as a foregone conclusion. The progress of the Know Nothings in this State, notwithstanding the drawbacks ot Sew- ardism and his epurious affiliations with this new party, is most extraordinary aud remarka- ble. In October Jast the total number of en- rolled members in good standing was sixty-six thousand. In November, with the aid of the democratic bard shells, they polled for Ull- man for Governor, one hundred and twenty- five thousand votes. Now, ascording to our returns from the Syracuse State Council, the “tested”? members of the nine hundred and ten councils represented, amount to one hundred and forty-two thousand! At anything like this ratio of increase they will be able to command in this State, by November next, an overwhelm- ing majority over all the outside parties and factions, whig and democratic, free soil and agrarian, combined. It also appears that the proceedings of this | Syracuse Council were harmonious and a unit, | even in the recommendation to the obnoxious Mr. Eames to take the first train back to Al- bany. Bating the demonstrations agaiast him of personal violence, his expulsion was well deserved, and proves most decisively that | neither Seward nor his anti-slavery programme | nor his supporters, meet with the slightest | sympathy or recognition from the regularly | organized Know Nothing party of New York. We are informed, too, that itis the fixed pur- pose of this party to maintain their stand upon the broad conservative compromises of the con- stitution, in active opposition to all sectional disunion agitators, or organizations, North or South. This is the right platform. It is found- ed upon a rock, stronger, under the protection of the American people, than the defences of Sebastopol or the rock of Gibraltar itself. The work of purging this new party of the least and last remains of Sewardism, is a good work, indispensable to the unity and ccnsistency of the order. It may now be con- sidered as substantiaily completed. Treachery has done its worst, the faithless have been dis carded; and the New York Know Notbings, therefore, purified of all their late troublesome Seward disorganizations, may hold up their hands to the South, and challenge their cordial co-operation in the important business of cleans- ing the Augean stables at Washington, from stem to stern, The field of reform is inviting and attractive, The great body ot the American people are for a thorough-going revolution in the organiza- tion and controlling agencies of our political parties, and in the foreign and domestic policy of the govervment. The wretched imbecility exhibited by this unfortunate Pierce adminis- tration in the management of our foreign affairs, suggests the work demanded in this depart- ment; and the overshadowing corruptions which the practical meas. 4 of the Know Nothing platform for 1856. ‘They will, also, adhere to their policy of hostility to “Popery,” as they call it, not as a religious, but as a political ele- ment in our elections. The Know Nothings propose to stand by the constitution upon the question of religious liberty, as upon other things ; but they will aim, at the same time, to ‘destroy all schemes for the monopoly of any church property in the hands of the hierarchy, to the prejudice of the sovereign authority of the congregations. In this connection, also, the Know Nothings have taken the field against all such Church and State affiliations ss those between Archbishop Hughes and W. H. Sew- ard’s party instruments at Carroll Hall. The Know Nothings, in a word, declare that Catho- lics, as such,shall cease to be used by artfal de- magogues as a balance of power in our political elections, and that the movements of the Papal ecclesiastics for the monopoly of the property ot their churches, shall be arrested—that no such dangerous power shall be secured to the Pope through his bishops here, over the Catho- lic laity as.citizens of the United States. We see nothing very dreadful in allthis. On the contrary, the late proceedings of the Catho- lic laity at Hartford and Buffalo, against the assumptions of their bishops, prove that the body of our Catholic citizens are opposed to such assumptions, and are as tenacious of their rights under our government as of their religion it- self. So with regard to the naturalization laws. TheeKnow Nothings contemplate their modif- cation; butin a0 way calculated to prejudice the existing rights of our adopted citizens, nor the claims and aspirations of good and substan- tial emigrants to a timely citizenship. But in this relation, it is a part of this new Americaa movement. as we comprehend it, that all milita- ry and political combinations of citizens in their old cast-off nationalities, as Irishmen and Ger- mans. for example, shall be done away witb; and that all naturalized foreigners in a!l public organizations and demonstrations, shall blend themselves with the masses of the American people. In becoming Americans, they must cevee to be Irish or Germans—that’s all. This will explain what otherwise appears as a singleness of hostility against the Catho- lics and the Irish. It is simply because the Trith are Catholics, and have, to some extent, allowed themselves to be managed as such by reckless demagogues, asa balance of political power, distinct from the homogeneous mass of the American people, that they feel most heavily the pressure of this Know Nothing re- action. Itis becanse this balance of power has fallen too much under the control of the whix political partie, that the Know Nothings have risen to abolish the evil, and the rum and ruffianism of the whigs and the democrats in the same blow. Having thus defined the policy and princi- plesof this great Know Nothing movement, and presuming them to rest upon the solid basis of the constitution and the Union, we think there is little evil to fear, but much good to be anticipated from their success henceforward to and through November, 1856. It is evident that the sympathies of the Ameri- can masses are with this new party; and its overwhelming popularity can only be attributed to the great principles otf a wholesome and comprehensive political reformation. With proper skill and discretion this movement, then, cannot come to its culmination short of the Presidential campaign of 56, Senator Fish anp THE Mercuants.—A_ tre- mendous uproar has been created by the meet- ing which was held at the Exchange on Satur- day, to consider the bill proposed by Mr. Sena- tor Fish to regulate the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels, The two Sew- ard organs are frantic with rage at the plain language used on that occasion by the mer- cbants, and, if they were believed, Messrs. Moses H. Grinnell, Mortimer Livingston and others of the same standing seek to make money at the risk of emigrants’ lives, aud resist obsti- nately any attempt to protect the latter. Now, this is all stuff and nonsense. The facts ot the case are very plain. The New York merchants have a bill before Congress to ameliorate the law concerning the carriage of passengers in | ships. This bill they have examined through the proper bodies, approved it, and prayed Congress to pass it. Until quite recently, there | was no opposition to its passage; but when it was reported to the Senate Committee, greatly to the astonishment of every one, Senator Ben- | jamin rose and opposed it on behalf of Senator | Fish, who was absent. It then appeared that Senator Fish had a bi!! of his own, which he had kept quiet till the last moment, and which he desired to substitute for the other one. Whes this bill of his came to be examined, it was found to be so absurd and impracticable that no lawyer could understand its provisions, and the only effect of its passage would have been to harass the ship and steamship owners, This | was the great secret. Senator Fish, who is a very respectable man indeed, but generally gets Senator Seward to do his thiuking for him, and receives his orders every morning, had been directed to worry the New York merchants whose opposition to Seward’s schemes of disunion have long been a source of uneasiness to the Senator from New York. This passenger bill, so much needed by the ship- owners, afforded the desired opportanity, and poor Mr. Fish did as he was bid. Of couree Mr. Seward bad no idea that anything of the kind was intended; but he will—now that Sena- tor Fich is absent—give his bill his support, and the merchaxts as much trouble ashe can. There can be no union, no harmony between political agitators Jike Seward and the great conretvative interests of the country. They are the antipodes of each other. If Seward carries out his schemes, the merchaate of this country must be injured; and the sooner they ASDA¥, FEBRUARY . 20, have crept into the public la: h- ington imperiously call for ife- Nothing is more argently gress than a simple, consistent t t ainis- tration of the pubife lar of the sort can be expected ing and log. ro)ling spoils poli d corrupt parties remain in * sere ig the judicious modificat rf laws, the strengthening of the recon- struction of the + . the modern improvements,” to which the old party fogi } ive bareaus and | of Congress . smselves utterly incompetent sew or practical. But the tay the navy require only the r king machinery of a popular party, thoroughly imbued yy «Sive ideas of the age. These thing:, uerstand, will be among key and rowdy influences of our old corrupt | You XX, recognise him as their enemy the better. As to | Senator Fish’s passenger bill, there are surely men in the Senate who have the real interest of the country sufficiently at heart to defeat this vindictive atiempt of asingle man to work | serious injury to a most importaut branch of | trade, The State of Mexico. In Mexico, it seems, things are coming te a crisis. Santa Anna has spent the whole of his seven millions, which had been seriously re- | duced before he got them, by the shaves of | bankers and speculators; and is obliged to dis- | wiss a considerable portion of his body guard, | officers of State, kc. Of course as a necessary | consequence, Alvarez’s prospects are looking | up. More villages and places in the West have declared for him; he is said to be master of the whole Pacitic coast. That bis party even in the hesrt of the Dictator’s dominions and the city of Mexico is sure to be swelled by the decline in the President’s cash, no one who kcaows any- thing of Mexican affairs can doubt for an in- stant. The Mexicans are always ready to join any insurgent unless the government can pay them for remaining quiet. Santa Auna, who knows his countrymen better than any man living, is preparing to meet the emergency in the only way in which it can be met. He wants more money; and is ready to sell to General Gadsden ano her slice of Mexico, to be cat where the General likes, for a suitable number of millions. If Gadsden pressed him hard, he would probably sell the city of Mexico, and throw a few of the people into the barcain. But ali these intrigues and @espairig plots are mere moonshine. The United States have got one slice of Mexico from Santa Anna, and that will satisfy them for the present. General Gadsden and Santa Anna may amase their leisure hours by haggling about this or that territory which the one wants to buy and the other to sell; but they may both lay the unction to their souls that this country will ratify no bargains they may make. We have given Santa Anva seven millions, and will let him have three more when the boundary is run; which is doing pretty well considering that it is money given bya republic to consolidate the throne of a despot, and considering that the land we have bought at so smart a price would not furnish suste- nance for a stout dog. So far as Santa Auna is concerned, however, we will let bygones be bygones; but we are in no hurry to repeat the operation. Gen. Gadsden must get glory, and Santa Anna money, if they want them, from some other source. As to the future of Mexico, no man knows anything, save only that for many many years to come, trouble and wars, commotion and in- security for life and property are sure to be the lot of the Mexican people. We can see a few steps in advance in the political drama. If by some corrupt scheme or tyrannical device Santa Anna capnot precure money to uphold his tot- tering empire, he is lost, probably exiled as he was before. Then will come, poasibly, the reign of Don Juan Alvarez, who will hold office until the plunder he makes in the conqnest of the capital is exhausted. Then some other army officer will rise up, and create a rebellion against him among the ever willing Mexican people; and Alvarez will be in the same posi- | tion as Santa Anna is now, without the vigor and intellect of that chieftain. Of course he will fall in the end, and the name of his succes- for no one can tell. Any one who can com- | mand a few hundred thousand dollars at one of these crises may become dictator. Without money, the most talented man must give way. This is indeed a pitiable picture; more Pitiable when the intelligence, and sprightli- ness and many virtues of the Mexicans are re- membered. But the closer the difficulty is examined, the plainer it appears that the fault is in the people themselver, in the race. Bred for centuries under the crushiug despotism of @ tyrannical crown and a stil] more tyrannical cbureb, they have not yet enjoyed liberty long enough to make a good use of it. Taught obe- dience by force for so long, they have no no- tion of seft-restraint; and the consequence is | that revolution has become a chronic disorder, | and that each brief interval ot peace is followed by along period of strife, confusion, and blood- | shed, The same evil has never been felt here, | because from the very day the first colonial government was established within the United States, a large measore of liberty was enjoyed | by the pecple, who had therefore an opportu- | nity of acquiring habits of self-restraint. Hence | the difference between the two confederacies. | | | | As toa remedy, there is but one possible, and that is time. When the Mexicans shall have gone through a regular course of turbulens | revclutions, they will learn the value of peace and quietness and will cease to rise in arms at the call of every ambitious or discontented soldier, Then national prosperity will com- mence. We can take no partin the cure of our neighbor. If indeed the United States laws | allowed us to annex Mexico, and convert it not into several States, but into a colonial depen- dency, to be kept in subjection by,an American | army, and raled by sn American general, peace would be certain, and political education | might follow. But it is needless to add that | for such a project the first requisite—the power to undertake it on our part—is wholly wanting. Mexico must work ont her own salvation. She | must be rent by discord, and harrassed by a | succession of feuds between petty chiefs, until her people at large acquire sense enough to | govern themselves. InrerestinG From Cupa.—Matters in the “ever faithful island” appear to be ina bad state. According to the accounts brought by the Black Warrior at New Orleans, the most vigorous preparations have been made by Captain: General Concha to resist invasion. The ports lave been blockaded—all able bodied citizens are ordered to come forward for enroll- ment in the militia—more troops have been sent for— British men-of-war are assisting the Captain-General in his efforts to preserve order, | and there is a terrible excitement all around. This intelligence indicates one of three things— either that something important is about to transpire in Cuba, or that the filibusters at New Orleans, Key West and along shore are about to make a descent on the island, or that Concha has been terribly hoaxed. The next | arrival from Havana may bring us some still more astonishing tntelligence. In this connection we anticipate a highly in- terresting speech from General Cass to-day, on the remarks of Lord Clarendon touching the balance of power in this Western he- misphere, delivered in Parliament some months ago. The co-operation of the British fleet at Havana with the movements of General think, Shai | with Hay Gey. Green versus Gex. Saw Hovsrox.— We have received the following note from Gen. Thomas J. Green, late of Texas :— Browy’s Horer, Wasmnaron Crrx, Feb. 15, 1855. James GorDON BrxyetT, Esq —- Deak Sm—I send you to-day my reply to the calumni- ous and vindictive speech made by Gen. Sam Houston ogainst myself, in the United States Senate, at the close of the last session of Congres, and whilst I was in Texas. There cannot be buat one opinion, and that is, that my vindication is triumphantly conclusive. As yet it ix im pamphlet form, and therefore cannot reach the millions of my countrymen to whom the printing and franking privilege of the Yenate distributed the Senator’s vindictive falsehoods; and I most respectfully submit io you, as an impartial journalist, whether you ought to give my defence such a place in your widely circulated rer oe tettaey of tageel,” Vary moepenifaig. ome obedient servanty, ‘THOS. J. GREEN. We have also received a copy of General Green’s pamphlet; but there is an objection which is fatal to its publication in our columns It charges upon General Houston a catalogue of crimes and offences sufficient to cover the longest term of any criminal court in the Unit- ed States, to the exclusion of all other business These specifications might involve us in libel suits for fifteen or twenty years to come; and considering the protracted Fry case, we have no inclination just now to cut out such a mass of work for our enterprising lawyers. Furthermore, this violent personal quarrel between Gen. Green and Gen. Houston is no affair of ours, As the friend of both parties, we have not the least disposition to touch it. Gen. Green we have always esteemed as an honorable and worthy man, and Gen. Houston we have always considered as one of the most extraordinary of all the heroes of modern times. Twenty-five years ago—we think it was in 1830—he called upon us in this city, and offered to make us State printer if we would go down and help him in the liberation of “Ta-has” (Texas) from the yoke of Mex- ico. We declined—for we knew nothing about “Tebas” at that day; we thought the scheme a wild-goose-chase, or a sort of Kinney expedi- tion, But what have been the results? The greatest in modern history. Gen. Houston se- cured a loan from the Custom House—went down to Texas, struck up a revolution, and with such colaborers as Gen. Rusk, Gen. Green, Commodore Moore, and a host of others, se- cured the independence of that country. <An- pexation followed next, and next our war with Mexico, and successively the peace, the acqui- tition of Californie, the discovery of the gold mines, and the mightiest impulse to emigration and commerce in all the history of the world since the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. We can, therefore, have nothing to do with this personal quarrel between Gen. Green and Gen. Houston, except as a peace maker. The pamphlet of Gen. Green may suit the toma- hawk and scalping knife system of border war- fare, where lawyers and libel suits are un- known; but it is not adapted to the climate of New York. Werecommend to both parties the se.tlement of their dispute through the me- dium of some intelligent Cherokee, as arbitra- tor, over an oyster supper for three. That is our ultimatum. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM CUBA. THREE DAYS LATER FROM HAVANA, THE WHOLE ISLAND IN A STATE OF SIEGE, THE CUBAN PORTS BLOCKADED, &e., &., &o. New Onteans, Feb. 19, 1855. ‘The steamship Black Warrior has arrived at this port a dates to the 15th instant. Great excitement still prevailed, and new militia com” panies were being formed, The whole island has been declared in a state of siege, and all the ports in a state of blockade. A proclamation had been issued ordering the enliat- ment of all volunteers between the ages of eighteen and fifty, who were capable of bearing arms. A military commission had been created for the east- enn part of the island. It was reported that Gen. Concha had sent to Porto Rico for more troops. Tho British ship of the line Boscawen had left Hava- na, aod the war steamer Medea was engaged in convey ing troops The Bri'ieh Rear Admiral reviewed the troops with General Concha on the 12th inst. Adecree was being ¢nforced prohibiting the sale of fire arms and ammunition. “From Washington. | PREPARATIONS POR THE KANE SBAROHING EXPEDI- TION—SENATOR WILSON AND THE KNOW NOTHING VISW OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Wasnixoton, Feb. 19, 1855. The Secretary of the Navy has appointed Commanders Engle ond Gardiner to select propellers to be sent on the expedition in search of Dr. Kane. ‘The American Organ this afternoon publishes a letter from Senator Wilson in answer to questions propounded by the editor of that paper. He says that he fally re. cognises the doctrine of State rights in its application to ry—that he does not entertain the opinion that Congress has any power to interfere with alavery as it exists under State laws—and that the American organi- zation in Massachusetts, does not embrace the subject of slavery among those for the regulation of which it ‘was formed. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Wasntxctox, Feb. 19, 1855, No, 52. James Stevens vs. Royal Gladding et al. Ap: peal from the United States Circuit Court, Rhode Island. Jnatice Curtis delivered the opinion reversing the decree of the Circuit Court with costs, remanding | the cause, with directions to award a perpetual injunc- tion, as prayed for, and for further , in con formity to the opinion of this Court a No. 73. Stephen J, Lewis's administratrix appellant, vs. Faward K Bell, assignee ef J. Bell, Jun. Argument concluded by Mr. Lawrence for the appellant. No, 26. Henry RW. Hill et al, appellants, va. Jos, ‘8 administrator, etal. This cause was submitted Court on the printed argument, by Mr. Benjamia f appellants, and by Mr. Harris for the appel- lees. No. $1, Jesse B. Thomas’s admr, appellant, va. The Missouri Iron Company et al.—This cause was sub- mitted to the consideration of the Court om the record, and printed argument, by Mr. Hill for the appellees, No. 72, John Charles Fremont, appellant, va, the United States. ro Sp was commenced by W. Carey Jones for the apps! be John E, Ward, Exq., of Georgia, and Thornton K. Lathrop, of Massachusotts, were admitted as attorneys and counsellors of the Court. Adjourned ti)l to-morrow at 11 o'clock. From St. Louis. NAVIGATION OF THE MISSOURI RIVER—SMALI, POX AT NEWPORT BARRACKS. Sr. Lovis, Feb. 19, 1955, The Mirsouri river is open for steamboat navigation from this city to Kanras. It is stoted that smallpox has made ile appearance | among the treops in Newport Barracks, four of them hsving been attacked with the disease. From Boston. DISBANDING OF MILITARY COMPANIES IN MASSA- OHUSETTS—LAUNCHING OF THR PRIGATR SANTEE. Bostox, Fob. 19, 1865, Adjutant-General Stone was arrested in Worcester on Saturday afternoon for trespassin breaking open the armory of the Jackson Guard, one of the disbanded com- panies, who refused to surrender their arms and equip- mente to the State, He was allowed + reture to Boston ‘without bail im order to consult the Commander-{n~ Chief. “ * ‘Tke United States trigate Santee was-launched at the Yortemoath Navy Yard, om Saturday afternoon. Her armament will consist of fifty-eight guns, including two sixty-four pounders, Trial of an Alleged Murderer. SyRacuss, Feb. 19, 1855. The trialof Alfred Tyler, for the murder of his wife, about one year age, which has been postpooed three times already, came up again this afternoon, but up tor the adjournment’ of the Court, no jury had been em- panolled. Suicides Yesterday. SUICIDE OF 4 MURDERER, BY HANGING. Cucaco, Feb. 19, 1855, George W. Green, tte banker, who was convicted some time since for the murder of his wife, bung him- self im hiz cell yesterday morning. SUICIDE OF A PRINTER, BY POISON, Eran, Feb. 19, 1855. A young man, named P, H. Williams, aged about 22. years, employed as a pressman in the Daily Republican» office here, committed suicide last night by taking mor- phine. Cause unknown, Earthquases in Maine, SHOOK OF AN EARTHQUAKE A WATERVILLE, Warervittx, Feb, 19, 1855. A severe shock of an earthquake was felt here this morning between the hours of five and six o’clock, SHOCK OF AN BARTHQUARE AT BANGOR. Banaor, Feb. 19, 1855, ‘The shock of ancarthquake was felt here at half-past’ five o’clock this morning. In several parts of the city buNdings were shaken violently. Arxival of the Nashville at Charleston. CHaRLEston, Feb. 18, 1855. The steamship Nashville, Capt. M. Berry, arrived here- from New York, at 7 0’clock this (Sunday) morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 19, 1855. The money market is very ey to-day, and stocke have improved. We quote Reading at Sb, Morrie 1 Canal at 1534, Loog Istand Railroad at 1734, Pennsylva- nia Railroad at 4614, Pennsylvania State fives at 87. Large sales were made of city sixes at 034. Affaire in Cuba. [From the Savannah Georgian, Feb. 16.] The intelligence which we publish to-day is calculated to turn the mind towards our neighbor, the Queen of the Antilles. How much truth there is in the exciting story bable # far aw favapnah is concerned, we think we can “assure then» that they are safe fora while yet. The Pampero, too, | ye learn is stil plying bet seen Pensacola and New Or- jean x ot the invasion we cannot say. It is more than that the Islanders are uareasonably alarmed. The Maseachusetts has been unfortunate at New: #| and Colonel Kinney lingers ingloriously about ngten. Generais Quitman and Henderson alone ¥ remain to be accounted for. It must have been their’ forces, if any, which the British frigates spied off the # coast of Cuba. u It 18 however, the internal affairs of the Island that | most command our attention. Plots, Frama c veers and proclamations are the order of the day. Men-of-war concentrate in the harbors, or cruise, in squ about the Island; troops move rapidly hither and thi ; Suspect Persons are commanded to ; the: Captain Genera)’s tinch pin is, allat once, suddenly miss- _ ing; a wide apread expectation of some approaching 1 great event prevails. To judge fromthe general alarm: ‘the day of Cuba has come at Jast, \ it is probable that all those stories, however, are very 1 much magnified. They goto make up the news budget \ of the day, but wa doubt if our readers will avtach + importance to them. We have been ascust too long to their periodical repetition. They will doubtless. { die away intheir own good time, as something else ex- |, citing occurs. Filibustering intelligence has become one of the characteristics of the day. and must have its run, however much it be regretted, as tending to prejudice the honorable acquisition of the Island. and ts disturb: 1 the business and quiet of tbe Southern States, 1 A Spanien Crviser iv Disavise.—The purser of the | steamship Prometheus arrived at New Orleans fiom San Juan, reports that on her outward passage, on the 1st. inst., Cape San Antonio N, W., distant fifteen miles, passed close toa Spanish bing of war, disguised as a merchant vessel. She was painted black, with a plain white streak, her sails much patched and carelessly net, and showed no colors. Christian Home for Female Servants.—At the request of Mrs, Linfoed, the undersigned have ex- amined the books and aecounts kept by her at the Hom and find there was received from various benevolent incividuals,” from the lst of April, 1854, to 1st Febru- | ary, 1855, the sum of $1 668 50, and from various per-’) sons visiting the institution, $365— making in all | $2,023 50; the whole of which appears to. have been: judiciously expended for the benefit of the institution. | | GEO, W. BETTS, 64 West Eighteenth st. | F. M. BROWN, 9 West Twenty-tirst st. JOHN I. LYELL, 35 Went Twenty-first st. New York, February 17, 1555, CunstiaN Home yor FeMae SeRVANTS,—We, the un- | dersigned, residing in ‘te vicinity of this institution, have visited it frequently. and feel compelled, from & pense of duty ard justice to Mrs. Linford—its founder— to say to the public at large that the object, workings , and management of the Christian Home have our entire | confidence, She is always to be found prosecuting the | ardvous labors of this missionary enterprise, and we deeply regret that so good a cause, and such self-sacri- fice ax she daily manifests should meet with persseution. | in @ Christion land, . JOSHUA M BEACH. 117 West Thirty-sixth st. REV. £. FAY, 650 Sixth avenue, GEO. H. TAYLOR, M. D, White's Spring Style of Hats Is now ready—- they are the most unique hats that has ever been intro- duced in this city. Soft hats and caps of every descrip- tion are there, Watre, Hatter, 212 Broadway, corner Fulton street. Anson’s,Daguerreoty pes—! efor : cents, colored and nice casey tae mite ett ‘ preserver, twice thi e others make for 50 cents, and equal in juality and size to those made else where for $2. ANSON’S, 589 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. | Portraits for 25 cents Ilustrate the Pro~ gress of invention, system and economy in the art, for the public good. See them at the depot of Holmes’ Pa- tent Double Cameras, No. 289 Broadway. 8 1s coming, junbeams are gett comfortably warts, ahh the irda will soon We heres: | dirda as beautiful as those exquisite hs and | other pictures made only at 8 Great Wor 's Fair Premium Gallery, 363 way. Call and see them, first floor, up stairs. Life.size photographs, on canvass, » | superior to most excellent painting ever made, Pianos.— Prices Lower than can be had else- | where.—The largest assortment to be fouad ia the United States, comprising pianus from ten different mapufac- ( ner a j Langt oe a bomen makers in the world. T. 8 first jum pianos, with or without the wolean attachment, and the modern lime proved Horaee Waters pianos. ‘Beautif eolean pianos for a1 or very neyly the woleon. Mel 1 tnt manufactories, at prices which defy competition. | Pianos to rent. HORACE WATERS, 333 Broadway. * Broken Banke — Present Value.—Kighth | avenue, taken at par; Governmeut Stock, 60 cents; ' Bridgeton, 90; Wheat Growers’, 95; Erie and Kalamazoo, 40 ; Washtenaw, 40; Lewis clothing warehouse, 66 and 68 niet at ba Cents per Yard.—We will offer — this m 10,000 yards of striped silkaat the ve: low price of ds. ‘per ‘yard; ooo teee ills, trou ta, $5 each; 100 dozen Alexandre’s silx gloves at 3a, per pair; 400 printed cashmere shawls at $2; also, a large stock of ribbons and bareges, equaliy cheap. E. H. LEADBEATER, 347 Broadway, corner of Leonard Linens! Linens!—We bave now in store our full stock of Fenton's celebrated shirting linens, the best. —< ever importe: jo, table cloths, damasks, sheet- bes, napkina, towels, &c., all of which will be sold at very great bargains. E. H. LEADBEATER, 047 Broadway, corner of Leonard street. County, 25; at EVANS? one { Carpets from Auction, at a wonderfal re** duetion im prices, at HIKAM ANDERSON’S, No, 90 Bowery, N B.— atfs., On, 10s, & in-grain carpets, at Henry H. Leeds, Auctioncer.—The sale for the cholce Ot seata for Grist & Mario's last appearance will mi by us thin day, February at the M at Yo'clock, A.M. HENR LEEDS BG — Boothby, opposite the Broadway 92034, makes shirts of artistic finish, perfect fit, and the finest material. Gentiemen’ fag goede hand in choice variety, farming ngs Cravats and Joinvisle forwarders of the daily aod weekly end all other dailies uslished in the city, and all weekly papers published in Uni Hiindaid. works, 666. Sheap fa fap gee aoe send your orders to punctuality and det pateh, ABBE & YATES, 22 Beekman street. “A Cock Fight in Havana,” ts a the January number of the subseriptions: inl he a chance for Mer valuable painting, received Broadway, up stairs. “lave, worth fow days longer, at jedding Cards._ jantly oops tan Sem, ele